Folger Shakespeare Library
- Year
- 1932
- Style
- Art Deco
- City
- Washington, DC
- Collection
- d.c. deco
The Folger Shakespeare Library was founded by Henry Clay Folger and his wife Emily Jordan Folger to house the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, along with rare materials from Britain and Europe dating from 1500 to 1750. The Moderne building at 201 East Capitol Street SE opened in 1932, two years after Henry Folger's death.
the building
More than a library. Beyond its rare-book collection, the Folger hosts the resident Folger Theatre and Folger Consort early-music ensemble, the O.B. Hardison Poetry Series, and national K-12 Shakespeare education programs.
the style
The library's 1932 building was designed in the Moderne style, a restrained, classically-inflected modern idiom for its Capitol Hill setting.
More on Art Decosignificance
The Folger is a DC Historic Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
nearby
- Saint Mark's Church
- Library of Congress
- Supreme Court
- Thomas Jefferson Building
- Hiram W. Johnson House
- Sewall-Belmont House (Nat'l Woman's Party Headquarters)